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This page shows stories whose rank on the Hacker News front page is significantly lower than their raw rank. That gap is a demotion / penalty signal, but it is not exclusively moderator action: flags, the anti-flamewar algorithm, and moderator penalties may all contribute. Stories marked [flagged] on HN are omitted. See this blog post for a discussion of how Hacker News ranking adjustments work. Click on the colorful stats below each story to see detailed historical charts. Click here for additional ranking algorithms
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  1. ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector (buchodi.com)
    ×4.29 79 | 722 points by lmbbuchodi 20 hours ago | 386 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Bill to Ban Private Equity from Owning Medical Practices (truthout.org)
    ×7.26 82 | 448 points by paimapi 13 hours ago | 317 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion (pirateface.co)
    ×2.87 73 | 537 points by skepticalgenius 20 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Nobody pays for FOSS, we can force them to (seldo.com)
    ×2.27 68 | 184 points by Muhammad523 14 hours ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. US Revokes Limits on Power Plants' Climate Pollution (hrw.org)
    ×5.28 62 | 241 points by DeepLogin 18 hours ago | 249 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Far-left party wins Berlin election, pledging to nationalise housing (reuters.com)
    ×5.76 72 | 55 points by theanonymousone 6 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Frontier Labs Are Selling Garbage to Fools in Washington (deadneurons.substack.com)
    ×4.34 55 #86 | 173 points by nr378 15 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Trump Ramps Up Bid to Dismantle International Criminal Court (wsj.com)
    ×5.38 67 | 9 points by TechTechTech 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program (neowin.net)
    ×7.32 36 | 133 points by bundie 18 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Digital euro makes debut in wholesale financial markets (ft.com)
    ×3.68 65 | 6 points by thm 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Winning the visa lottery (aeaweb.org)
    ×1.69 33 #53 | 89 points by neehao 8 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. AI and the Destruction of the Creative Commons (chesterwisniewski.com)
    ×3.38 28 | 229 points by rakel_rakel 1 day ago | 275 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Nvidia boss says there is '0% chance' AI destroys the world by 2030 (theguardian.com)
    ×3.52 44 | 6 points by 01-_- 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. New air traffic control failure delays flights at UK airports (reuters.com)
    ×3.33 51 | 5 points by rstreefland 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. I stopped drinking the AI Kool-Aid (joshtronic.com)
    ×4.75 25 | 62 points by joshtronic 14 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. How the EU's age-verification app for children would work (reuters.com)
    ×2.47 48 | 4 points by cisc 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. One-Electron Universe (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.18 21 | 109 points by pella 20 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Thomson Reuters: Thomson-1.0-Small (huggingface.co)
    ×2.54 41 | 4 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. AI chatbots give wrong answers to financial queries 'most of the time' (ft.com)
    ×2.88 23 #34 | 118 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 7 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. iFixit Teardown: iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max (ifixit.com)
    ×2.92 30 | 5 points by tosh 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. North Korean Hackers Posed as Recruiters. They Infected 30k Devices Worldwide (inc.com)
    ×2.25 22 #57 | 21 points by jnord 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP (grapheneos.social)
    ×4.56 15 #88 | 1162 points by theanonymousone 2 days ago | 709 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. US and China Discuss Alerting Each Other to AI National Security Threats (wired.com)
    ×1.83 52 | 3 points by joozio 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Self-Hosting Behind Cgnat – Be Libre (alvarezrosa.com)
    ×4.22 76 | 5 points by dalvrosa 24 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: Witdem – Did your AI Agent accomplish its task? and at what cost? (witdem.com)
    ×2.01 53 | 3 points by ebrahimisoheil 38 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Raspberry Pi 5 EEPROM update now blocks manual RAM upgrades (reddit.com)
    ×2.76 17 #49 | 20 points by csmantle 4 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible (hartnup.uk)
    ×7.54 11 #44 | 1827 points by ereiamjh 2 days ago | 924 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Brood War Bench (swerdlow.dev)
    ×2.05 11 | 339 points by benswerd 1 day ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Engineering Memory: Thoughts on learning to memorize first 100 digits of pi (gregorygundersen.com)
    ×1.94 22 | 3 points by fuzzythinker 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. We Infringe Trademarks (indiehackers.com)
    ×2.43 64 | 3 points by InterAni 23 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Intel Ends Its $100k Bug Bounty Program (techpowerup.com)
    ×1.87 17 | 3 points by giuliomagnifico 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. College Is Coming Apart After Successive, Overlapping Crises (theatlantic.com)
    ×2.01 10 #78 | 18 points by ryan_j_naughton 7 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. DeepSeek injects 50% more security bugs prompted with Chinese political triggers (venturebeat.com)
    ×3.95 75 | 4 points by Bluestein 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brain (stanford.edu)
    ×2.87 6 #85 | 648 points by emigre 2 days ago | 255 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. I think you should almost never use AI to write (erichgrunewald.substack.com)
    ×4.05 6 | 350 points by erwald 1 day ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago (convaiinnovations.com)
    ×5.16 5 #50 | 1316 points by nandakishor_ml 2 days ago | 312 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. English: A vs. An (redblobgames.com)
    ×2.11 5 #80 | 354 points by azhenley 1 day ago | 498 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Jev 1.13 Jaggedness (typesafe.ai)
    ×1.74 8 | 3 points by Bluestein 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. What happened to the Snowden archive (libroot.org)
    ×3.41 4 #12 | 497 points by EXHades 13 hours ago | 339 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. TPM-Attest: Hardware-Rooted Anti-Cheat Alternative for Linux (arxiv.org)
    ×1.68 5 | 3 points by sbulaev 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Do birds have accents? the regional differences in birdsong (theconversation.com)
    ×1.30 2 | 73 points by bryanrasmussen 22 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Grim Fandango Puzzle Document (1996) [pdf] (jmac.org)
    ×1.85 2 #6 | 220 points by kelseyfrog 5 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Jev-Leftpad (github.com/f)
    ×2.59 1 #4 | 86 points by fka 3 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???